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The Business World Exposed
Shanghai in 1911: share speculators, compradors, bankrupt merchants, fake companies and the women and con-men who live off them. The Business World Exposed is a gleeful satire of the new capitalism of the treaty ports. It is full of comic characters and cautionary tales. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Written as the empire was collapsing, it shows China meeting steamships, newspapers, foreign concessions and reform, and it is sharper and funnier than most readers expect. Very little of this extraordinary body of fiction has been translated, and it shows a China in rapid, painful and often absurd transformation. It is an ideal book for curious readers who want to explore Chinese literature and thought beyond the few famous titles, in a clear modern English version.
